Pretzel Buns?

Does anybody know why Pretzel Bread is now a fad in restaurants all over the place? How did it even start? I remember sometime after 4th of July this year, the stuff just suddenly sprang out of nowhere.

It's just a fad, I guess.

I was just talking to my friends about that today. It's like how chipotle wasn't a thing until a couple years ago, then started showing up at friggin' every restaurant ever.

Pretzel buns have been around for a while. I like pretzel rolls, but I think they kind of get ruined with the soggy meat juice inevitable with burgers...

They're just regular buns shaped like a pretzel. Where's the appeal?

I would guess they're stiffer and less likely to disintegrate when wet- or at least appear that way. This'll go the way of the wedge salad, believe me.

Er, what do you mean shaped like a pretzel? Are we actually talking about two totally different things?

Either way I don't know where you guys are but they've been around for a while. They haven't exactly been common but they've been around. Maybe they're more common in parts of the US that are heavily German?

Lye rolls are basic food here in Germany, esp. in Swabia where yours truly lives . I eat them pretty much every day.

They aren't shaped like a pretzel. They're made from a different type of dough, and boiled in a lye solution before they're baked. That's what gives them the hard, shiny, dark-brown crust.

They're especially tasty as sticks, crusted with baked cheese .

Damn you Tape, now I want some...

Cut it in half, spread it with crackling lard and put some chives on top, and you're set for trve epic Swabian lvnchtime awesomeness. You'll be a chubby peasant like me in no time .

They are delicious and rightfully popular.

I concur. Pretzel bread is tasty as hell, and it's one-quarter of the secret of immortality.

edited 29th Jul '13 4:16:22 PM by maxwellelvis

Er I guess not.

Do you guys have Pretzel World? They serve otherwise normal buns shaped like a prezrel.

edited 30th Jul '13 8:44:35 PM by joeyjojo

And they're salty, right?

Salty as a sore loser at Street Fighter IV.

fairly slaty but not encrusted level.

They are more or regular buns but shaped like a pretzel.

There is a Wendy's commercial that mentions their cheeseburgers have them. I've never heard of them elsewhere or had one (I don't exactly eat out a lot though).

Pretzel bread is pretty good.

I had a pizza made with petzel bread once. It was pretty good.

The phrase "pretzel bacon cheeseburger" sounds orgasmic in of itself.

It sounds like a heart attack on a plate.

Our villy baker once left a batch of buns in the lye for slightly too long and didn't notice. They were biting our tongues like hell .

()x10

I'm simultaneously happy and ashamed that I caught that reference so quickly.

But I fucking love pretzel anything.

I was waiting for someone to get it.